EDITOR’S NOTE: Changes wrought by the people dominated the news in 2018 as activism drove us to the polls in unprecedented numbers to alter the way we view marijuana and to restrict downtown development. Hot-button issues like what to do about Enbridge’s Line 5 across the Mackinac Straits, an investigation into Traverse City

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